Students' awareness of reading strategies

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buir.advisorBasham, Charlotte S.
dc.contributor.authorKantarcı, Fevziye
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-01T11:06:06Z
dc.date.available2016-07-01T11:06:06Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.departmentM.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Languageen_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated (a) the university students’ existing reading strategy repertoires, (b) the impact of instruction in top-down reading strategies on their strategic performance, (c) the strategies that students were able to apply in their reading processes, and (d) the relationship between the students’ reported frequency of strategy use and the employment of strategies in their reading practice. The study was conducted with 20 intermediate level students and their classroom teacher in the School of Foreign Languages at Erciyes University in the spring semester of 2006. After the first administration of the Reading Strategy Questionnaire, a threeweek explicit strategy instruction in top-down reading strategies was provided. Following the treatment, the same questionnaire was administered a second time in order to determine the effects of the consciousness-raising program. Think-aloud protocols and post-treatment interviews conducted with 5 volunteer students enriched the study with qualitative data. The statistical correlation of the pre- and post-questionnaires showed that there were significant increases in the means of top-down strategies after the treatment while a slight decrease occurred in students’ bottom-up strategy use. However, think-aloud protocols demonstrated that students tended to use bottom-up strategies more in their reading practice. These findings were also supported by the interviews.en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.description.provenanceMade available in DSpace on 2016-07-01T11:06:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0003107.pdf: 514264 bytes, checksum: 215de70f703dfe2a1c8cf848e47e8b19 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006en
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityKantarcı, Fevziyeen_US
dc.format.extentxiv, 129 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.itemidBILKUTUPB099687
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/29819
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectReading strategiesen_US
dc.subjectTop-down reading strategiesen_US
dc.subjectBottom-up reading strategiesen_US
dc.subjectReading strategy instructionen_US
dc.subjectStrategic readeren_US
dc.subject.lccPE1068.T8 K368 2006en_US
dc.subject.lcshEnglish language Study and teaching (Higher) Turkey.en_US
dc.titleStudents' awareness of reading strategiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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